Eagleborn Writing
Stories of ruin and redemption
Jacob Hilton
I write dark, character-driven fiction about broken people, strange places, and the possibility of redemption.
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Reese came to Palo Duro Canyon looking for solitude. Instead, he found a strange girl with purple hair, too many questions, and reasons of her own for wanting to be alone.
Currently Writing
Desolations: Deacon’s RoadAdult dark fantasy set in a broken Louisiana, where survival is only the beginning.The manuscript is currently looking for agent representation.
BIO
MY STORYI grew up in rural Louisiana. Back roads, small towns, churches, swamps, old stories, and people who knew more about you than you probably wanted them to. I didn't realize how much of that stayed with me until I started writing.These days I live with my family in West Texas, and somehow that landscape got into my stories too. It's hard not to be inspired by a place where you can see forever. Louisiana and West Texas don't look much alike, but there's something about both of them that feels a little wild and a little lonely. I like writing in those places.I have a master's degree in Mental Health Counseling, although I'm not a practicing therapist. I've spent much of my professional life working around people going through difficult things, and I think that changed the way I write characters.I'm not particularly interested in perfect people.I like people who are hurting. People who screw things up. People carrying things they don't know how to put down. I want to know what happens when they run out of good choices and have to decide who they're going to be anyway.Maybe that's why my stories tend to get dark.But the darkness isn't really the point.I'm interested in what survives it.Faith. Family. Grief. Sacrifice. Forgiveness. The possibility that somebody who is pretty badly broken might still find their way home.That's what I keep coming back to.I write dark fantasy, Southern Gothic, and speculative fiction under Eagleborn Writing. My debut novel, Desolations: Deacon's Road, is currently seeking literary representation.Stories of ruin and redemption.